I'm honestly a big defender of this game because I'm going to be honest guys. The writing isn't that much worse than 2 its just the fact that the villain sucks this time. I think the gameplay improvements to this game overall make it more than viable of being a sequel with just feeling like a better game overall to control and maneuver. Also all the classes only getting even more skill trees with dlc instead of new whole characters (which you can make an argument can be worse I really do miss krieg being playable). I think this game is a really fun time and a good sequel to 2